16-10-2006, 07:57 PM
Idealy, there should be one point when a player is saved - before they are unloaded from memory. But if you are worried about your server crashing, then I believe this is where this function comes in. Besides these two times, though, you shouldn't ever save any more since File I/O is very slow, especially when using Get/WritePrivateProfileString.
You CAN, if you want, store two arrays for users - one that holds the values loaded into memory from the user file, and one that holds the actual user. Before you save the user, you can just check every value to the second "untouched" array, and only write a value if it has changed.
You CAN, if you want, store two arrays for users - one that holds the values loaded into memory from the user file, and one that holds the actual user. Before you save the user, you can just check every value to the second "untouched" array, and only write a value if it has changed.